If you profess to be a Christian and are yet LGBT: How do you purport that Christ is exemplified by LGBT behavior?
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Love. Simply put, love. This is one of the biggest themes in the Bible, for us to love God & love each other. I am Christian & gay. And no man is going to get between/hinder me from my relationship with God.
From a Christian perspective, we are/will all judged by God for who we are, what kind of life we’ve lived, how much we did to help others during life, & having good character. We have ALL sinned. No sin is greater than another. Your sexual orientation isn’t going to make a difference when your dead & are judged not by Man, but God.
If being gay (as some of my Christian borthers & sisiters LOVE to point out) is a greater sin than any other? We’ll find out in the end. I’d rather live my life in truth & know that I didn’t do anything to hurt my fellow man by being gay. I chose the hard right in being gay & true to myself, instead the easier wrong. The easier wrong would be marrying a man, having children, & not giving that man what he deserves in a partner in marriage. In addition, (since I’d still be gay but would supress everything), I would end up hurting my husband, both of our families, our children by living this lie.
Why should I be that selfish to hurt all those other people, just because society tells me that that’s what I’m supposed to do as a woman? Why should I not be an adult & realize that this is MY life, & I am the one who will answer for it?
So your beliefs & judgment about gays is that we are not living a Christian life just because we’re gay? Sorry. There are bigger issues in the world than what me & my wife do behind closed doors, or what you & YOUR spouse does behind closed doors. Live & let live.
And before you start in on Biblical references, you do realize that the Bible can justify a good deed just as well as it can justify something wrong. It all depends on interpretation.
Because there are glb christians out there (myself NOT included) who believe that the bible was translated incorrectly by people who take words at face value when people of faith should know that the words in the bible are not face value but are of words of meaning. The meanings of those words then and now are completely different.
This was how it was explained to me by someone who is gay and christian.
I’m 25 and I grew up a total Christian in very strict religious schools as a child. I was teased for being gay before I even knew what it was. I, for one, can assure you that it is not a ‘lifestyle’ that LGBT’s chose. My own fears of being gay became clear to me when I was about 16 and developed my first crush on another guy. I tried so very hard to like girls but I could not lie to myself. Do you think the good Lord would want you to be dishonest with yourself? I don’t think so. I consider myself a non-denominational believer in Christ after what I went through with the Christians who condemned me for being myself. I’ve done my fair research of the Bible over the years and it seems to me that the ones who condemn are only condemning themselves along with it. For example, I believe it’s in the old testament where it’s said to be an unforgivable sin to eat shellfish, pork, and certain other types of foods. Well I for one don’t need to guess on the amount of ‘straight’ Christian folks who dine at seafood and bbq restaurants to satisfy their cravings for oysters, scallops, and pulled pork sandwiches. Does that mean they are going to hell for eating those things? No, I don’t think so and neither do they.
Here is one of my favorite quotes ….
” The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn’t mean that God doesn’t love heterosexuals. It’s just that they need more supervision. ” ~Lynn Lavner